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The Dartmouth
August 23, 2026
The Dartmouth
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Tom Lobben '08 will attempt to help the men's soccer team score a win over Brown on Saturday.
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Men's soccer ready for title defense

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Samantha Ceppos / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Fresh off an encouraging victory over Pac-10 power Stanford and just a few days away from kicking off its Ivy season, the Dartmouth men's soccer team hopes to improve upon a 2-2-2 start, one that has not quite lived up to the lofty expectations the team holds. "We feel confident about our record so far but not satisfied," goalkeeper Rowan Anders '07 said.


Tom Bennewitz '08 completed 14 of 22 passes for 102 yards in Dartmouth's 28-7 defeat at the hands of the Colgate Red Raiders on Saturday.
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Football fumbles season opener

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Kawakahi Amina After a string of disappointing seasons, the Dartmouth football team is intent on bringing back some pride and respect to the most successful program in Ivy League history. "Last year was not what we wanted," co-captain and nose tackle Mike Rabil '06 said about Dartmouth's 2-8 campaign in 2005, which included a 1-6 mark in the Ivy League.


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Coaching dearth leaves women's swim team high and dry

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Athletic Director Josie Harper recently announced that the newly appointed women's swimming coach, Jerry Foley, has retracted his decision to take the position and will not join the Big Green staff. "It is with excitement that I look forward to the challenges and growth in the women's swimming and diving program at Dartmouth," Foley said in late June when he was given the position. "Leaving Bucknell was not an easy decision, nor was it taken lightly.





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Tennis, golf teams receive national academic awards

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Four Dartmouth sports programs received national academic honors in the past two weeks. Both the men's and women's golf teams placed among the top 25 in Golf Digest's "College Golf Guide" academic rankings, while both the men's and women's tennis teams had several players honored as Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Academic Team members. Golf Digest compiled a list of golf teams that exemplified academic prowess, along with providing preseason power rankings for the top programs in the country.



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Big Green football looks to beat preseason expectations

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The Ivy League Football Media poll, revealed Tuesday, showed low expectations for Dartmouth football in the coming season. The poll, which was voted upon by two media representatives from each Ivy League school, ranked Dartmouth in seventh place out of eight. The Harvard Crimson were chosen to finish on top and received half of the first place votes and 116 total poll points.






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Trading deadline pushes big names out of town and into new threads

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In the aftermath of the first of two 2006 Major League Baseball trade deadlines, some of baseball's big names are changing uniforms as well as leagues. The last time U2's hit "With or Without You" topped the charts was 1987, which happens to be the last time the Detroit Tigers reached the playoffs.



After a successful season as the men's freshman lightweight coach, Bordeau looks to invigorate the men's heavyweight crew program.
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Bordeau takes over as new men's heavyweight crew coach

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Courtesy of USNA.edu Athletics Director Josie Harper announced on Friday that Christopher "Topher" Bordeau, the men's freshman lightweight coach for the 2005-06 season, has been named the men's varsity heavyweight team head coach. Bordeau, a 1998 Princeton University graduate, helped the Tigers to win the national collegiate championships in 1995, 1996 and 1998.